{"id":60918,"date":"2025-07-13T00:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60918\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T00:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T00:33:20","slug":"jacksonville-councilman-talks-emerald-trail-funding-loss-duval-schools-hq-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60918\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville councilman talks Emerald Trail funding loss, Duval schools HQ debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Jacksonville City Councilmember Matt Carlucci said he was \u201cupset\u201d when he learned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/07\/08\/trumps-budget-bill-wipes-147m-grant-earmarked-for-jacksonvilles-emerald-trail-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal funding request for the Emerald Trail was removed from Trump\u2019s budget bill<\/a>. But he remains optimistic about the project\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cInitially, I was upset. I just have to tell you, because it\u2019s such a wonderful project,\u201d Carlucci told News4JAX in an interview for This Week in Jacksonville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cBut I will say this \u2014 after I took a few deep breaths, the next morning, I called both Congressman Rutherford and Congressman Bean\u2026 and they are devoted to replacing the funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The $147 million in funding was stripped from a federal appropriations bill. Carlucci said securing smaller amounts of money over time might be a more realistic approach and stressed the importance of bipartisan cooperation to keep the project moving forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Carlucci also addressed the ongoing debate about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2025\/07\/08\/dcpss-headquarters-building-is-currently-up-for-sale-a-councilman-wants-school-leaders-to-it-move-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future location of the Duval County Public Schools headquarters<\/a>, which is currently up for sale. He plans to introduce a nonbinding resolution encouraging the district to stay downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThe school board needs a place of significance because it\u2019s a significant player in Jacksonville\u2019s life,\u201d Carlucci said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He added that keeping the school board downtown would support revitalization efforts and increase daily activity in the urban core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">You can watch the full interview with Councilmember Carlucci on This Week in Jacksonville, airing Sunday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Jacksonville City Councilmember Matt Carlucci said he was \u201cupset\u201d when he learned a federal funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,5310,407,44000,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-60918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-emerald-trail","12":"tag-fl","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114843117515589263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}